Women's weak bargaining power against spouses can be a hurdle to their entrepreneurship opportunities. By utilizing the … divorce laws give women stronger bargaining power. This effect mainly comes from an increase in survival rate by existing … business owners. The results are more pronounced for the more entrepreneurial-type of occupations, and among women who ex ante …

This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top … welfare state where work is the norm for women, self-employment offers a way to avoid the stay-at-home stigma. It allows one …

This policy brief on women in entrepreneurship was produced by the OECD and the European Commission. It explores the … that their policies help women to participate in the labour market. This policy brief is part of a series of documents …

, context, and innovation performance among women entrepreneurs in Ecuador. Based on a sample of 45 women entrepreneurs, the … a key role in fostering innovation in women-led firms in Ecuador. This innovation is facilitated by establishing close …

-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic. We utilize a new primary data set based on administrative records … service. Three empirical findings emerge: First, the overall employment size of women-owned businesses shrank more than men …-owned businesses after the pandemic outbreak; second, women were more likely than men to cut personal expenditures and use government …

compilations describing the emergence of female entrepreneurship as a business and social phenomenon, the women who undertook and … led these endeavors, and changes in the characteristics of women entrepreneurs over time. She also presents materials in … taxonomy for entrepreneurship; for greater study of innovation-driven entrepreneurship, including as an endeavor of women; for …

This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top … welfare state where work is the norm for women, self-employment offers a way to avoid the stay-at-home stigma. It allows one …

Whether policy support should be designed differently for women entrepreneurs is a particularly relevant question. To … answer this, and to inform the design of policies to provide appropriate support for women entrepreneurs, the paper compares … of women. Based on a survey of 50 men and 50 women entrepreneurs in the regions of Sfax, Sousse and Tunis, our results …

propensities between men and women. The consequences of the assumed differential importance of household and family generate … chance of females in 'unentrepreneurial' cultures being relatively entrepreneurial compared to males. Also women from …

relation to gender and women, the focus has been on the influence of social contexts such as networks, family and household … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …